Student sign pledge of disobedience in response to University’s continuing investment in fossil fuels Ada Throckmorton October 7, 2015 2 Comments As of noon on Wednesday, 51 Stanford students signed a pledge written by Fossil Free Stanford pledging to participate in civil disobedience due to the University’s continued investment in oil and... Read More »
Stanford’s rich history of divestment movements Jeremy Quach February 11, 2015 10 Comments Stanford Out Of Occupied Palestine (SOOP) is not the first divestment movement to take Stanford’s campus by storm. Calls for divestment from partners of the Sudanese government, coal companies, and... Read More »
Fossil fuel divestment discussion moves toward Board of Trustees Lucy Svoboda April 18, 2014 0 Comments In this year’s ASSU elections, voters approved a ballot initiative to divest Stanford’s endowment from fossil fuels with 78 percent of votes in favor, setting in motion a process that could... Read More »
A train car named Disaster Holly Moeller February 5, 2014 2 Comments It was a sight I’d never expected, and one I didn’t figure on seeing again — until late last year, when stories of flaming, even exploding trains seemed to suddenly fill the news. What changed... Read More »
Fossil fuel divestment group finds University officials ‘receptive’ Helin Gao December 20, 2012 2 Comments Joining a nationwide movement currently involving 192 colleges, a group of Stanford students recently kicked off a fossil fuel divestment campaign on campus. Read More »